A 36-year-old man was arrested by police in connection with the February 28th 2020 triple murder at Guapo Village in Point Fortin.
• The suspect, of First Street New Village in Point Fortin, was held by police on Tuesday 24th January 2023 and taken to the Point Fortin Police Station where he remains in custody.
• he is expected to be interviewed in connection with the triple murders of 69-year-old Ceslyn Farrell, her son 48-year-old Patrick Farrell, and family friend 41-year-old Seychelles Cadet.
• they were all stabbed to death and their home set on fire by a male suspect who had been previously detained but later released pending further investigations.
• initially police thought the victims died as a result of a house fire but crime scene investigators soon found evidence inside the burnt-out house which suggested the trio were first murdered.
• the investigations into this triple homicide took an extremely long period of time given the fact that DNA samples had to be sent abroad to be analyzed.
• a few weeks ago, DNA evidence, collected in and around the burnt-out house came back into the country from the U.K. and matched that of the suspect.
• Crime Scene Investigators found blood splattered on the walls of the burnt house where the three were found at Petrotrin quarters in Cochrane on Friday 28th February, 2020 around 8:30am.
• Cadet, a mother of three, broke off a relationship with the suspect and left her home at the south central road, Point Fortin.
• Ceslyn Farrell, an avid churchgoer, met Cadet through her church and took her in about four months ago. Patrick Farrell lived in Tobago and at his mother’s home in Guapo. he was one of six children. Farrell also had 17 grandchildren.
